I was a computer geek in the SF Bay Area for many years when I decided to quit for a year and a half. I spent several months on the road in a VW camper bus, traveling across the US and Canada. I also took several classes (sailing, 400+ hours in massage and an accelerated pre-med program) and generally just detoxed from the silicon valley grind.

Oh yeah, and I have an iPhone. C'mon, you know you wanna touch it. ;-)

Since then, I have moved to Portland, OR, which has been amazing. I'm working in high tech again, but remotely and half time, which is much more sane. With my free time, I am making new friends, hiking in the Columbia River Gorge, cooking, practicing massage, going to the gym and learning how to garden.

Cooking, making people laugh, navigating through crowded airport and empty backroads and doing things with my Macintosh.

The (nearly) shaved head, the reddish goatee, and occasionally the scar over my right eye. And that I'm a tremendous smart ass.

Books (Authors, really): Nicholson Baker, Iain Banks, Thomas Berger, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, William S Burroughs, Gerald Durrell, Clyde Edgerton, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, Chuck Palahniuk, Mark Twain, Tom Robbins, Rudy Rucker, Will Self, Robert Anton Wilson, Irvine Welsh

I don't have any sort of television feed; all I do is watch movies or TV shows via DVDs. Yay for Netflix!
Movies (Directors, really): Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Jeunet & Caro, Kevin Smith, David Mamet, Coen Brothers, Robert Altman, David Cronenberg

Music: Al Green, Andrew Bird, Billie Holiday, Bobby McFerrin, Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, The Dead 60s, Django Reinhardt, Edie Brickell & new Bohemians, Elvis Costello, Erin Mckeown, Eva Cassidy & Chuck Brown, Everlast, Fatboy Slim, Guadaloop, Jonathan Coulton, Leon Redbone, Liz Phair, Loudon Wainwright III, Mike Doughty, The Police, Randy Newman, Sarah Vaughan, Soul Coughing, Sublime, Tom Waits, Us3, Violent Femmes, Willie Nelson

Food: Mexican, Greek, Italian, Afghan

Aside from obvious things like food, shelter...?

Occasional time alone. Time spent in nature. Opportunities to learn new things.

Lots of introspection.

What's typical? Movie, seeing a band, karaoke, roller derby, camping...

I can sing the Swedish Chef's Song from the Muppet Show.
I know when "anal retentive" should be hyphenated.
I can balance a broom on my chin.
I have worked as a bouncer, a carpenter, a trolley driver.
I was once caught having sex with a girl on top of her parents' car, in her parents' driveway. By her mother.

You're open-minded, you have a quirky sense of humor, you're clever, and you have something more to talk about than what you saw on TV last night.